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2 unusual facts about Guyanese literature


Guyanese literature

The first book written on Guyana, by Sir Walter Raleigh, was The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empyre of Guiana (With a Relation of the Great and Golden Citie of Manoa (Which the Spanyards call El Dorado) and of the Provinces of Emeria, Aromaia, Amapaia, and Other Countries, with Their Riulers, Adjoyning (Robert Robinson: London, 1596).

Mark McWatt

McWatt has published three collections of poetry, the second of which, The Language of Eldorado (1994), was awarded the Guyana Prize.



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